Critically compare and contrast Tolstoy's nevella The Death of Ivan IIyich with Kurosawa's masterpiece Ikuru

Writer’s name Instructor’s name Course Date Critically compare and contrast Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich with Kurosawa's masterpiece Ikuru A great, philosophical thought passed through two stories about the most uninteresting, most common people in both Tolstoy’s novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Kurosawa’s film Ikuru…

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Thus, we are going to critically compare and contrast Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich with Kurosawa's masterpiece Ikuru. First of all it is necessary to mention that Tolstoy’s novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich was written much earlier than Kurosawa’s film Ikuru was produced; thus many critics stated that Kurosawa was inspired by Russian classics and he partially used two Tolstoy’s stories such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Father Sergius as a plot for his own masterpiece. Characterizing Ikuru in general features it is possible to mention that the first novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich gives the film terminally ill person, who is faced to the problem of loss of the meaning of life (by the way, this is one of the first cinema films in which the protagonist is aware of his death), and the end of the film. The second novella Father Sergius gives the film the idea of serving others. ...

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